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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...abatement on his assessment in Boston, he applies to the City Assessor's office and pays the fee demanded. Whether or not the abatement is granted, that fee is attached to the property owner's assessment from that year on; the money apparently goes directly to the Board of Assessors each year. That's one sources of excess intake in the Assessment Division. But, there is a further explicitly illegal way that the Assessors make money. By paying the price demanded, an owner could have his valuation cut down; even with exorbitant fees, the owners can still save enough...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: Curley Has Edge in Boston Election | 11/4/1949 | See Source »

...magazine, to be composed of people who "aren't interested in building new frontiers in literature" has not as yet organized a formal board. A Chase Shafer '51, William E. Wiggin '50, and Darrell were all members of the Advocate business board...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Publication Strikes Obstacles | 11/3/1949 | See Source »

...Reading Theater, under the direction of Richard E. Norris '52, will give the second of its fall series on Monday, November 14. The play for that day will be chosen at a meeting of the HDC executive board tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Inspector General' Shocks Stock in HDC Farce... | 11/1/1949 | See Source »

...stuck when the film's distributor, George I. Shafir of Manhattan, refused to contest it. In their annual report, the stubborn censors were still defending their decision: "Certainly the screen is no place for documentary subjects that are presented without truth and sincerity, and the sooner the board is enabled to cope with such abuses beyond legal .doubt, the better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Moral Breach | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Last week the American Civil Liberties Union raised an outraged voice. In a letter to Governor Lane, Playwright Elmer Rice, chairman of its National Council on Freedom from Censorship, branded the board's proposal "flagrantly unconstitutional." Said Rice: "If the ... board is to have the power to ban pictures because the subjects are not presented with truth and sincerity, there will be very few Hollywood productions indeed which could ever be shown. [If] censorship on this ground should be limited to documentary subjects, then the attempted restrictions on free speech become all the more obvious ... If the board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Moral Breach | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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